Rep. Steve Driehaus waves to the crowd during September's Harvest Home Parade in Cheviot.

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In a sign that Democrats may be waving the white flag in Ohio's 1st Congressional District, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has pulled over $500,000 in TV advertising on Cincinnati TV stations in support of Rep. Steve Driehaus, the Price Hill Democrat who is trying to win a second term in Congress.

DCCC officials and the Driehaus campaign deny that the pulling of TV time reserved here - $524,625 worth - means that the Democratic party is giving up on Driehaus' chance of defeating former Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Westwood, who had held the seat for 14 years before losing it to ...